Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Normans Arrive
Previous southern kings had been con...
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Roman
The city was founded in or around AD...
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York Minster
York's cathedral church is one...
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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York's Jewish History - An Audio Trail
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York St John University
On 11 December 1839 a meeting of the...
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The Expanding City
As York grew during the 20th century...
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After the Dissolution
Suddenly some of York’s magnif...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Hospitium
- King Edward I and York
- Archbishop Scrope Executed
- Alcuin of York
- View from Station Rise
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- The Medieval Castle
- Ouse Bridge
- Bootham School
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- St Columba's United Reformed Church
- Guy Fawkes
- George Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
- Cinema Comes to York
- The Minster in the 18th Century
- Bronze weights
- Glazed Medieval Jug